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STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS IN JULY. 
Containing ajffictal and authentic Documenis. 
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; GREAT. BRITAIN. 
O* Friday, the 26th of June, the new 
Parliament met for the first time, 
wien the following speech was read from 
the Throne by the Lords Commissioners : 
. My Lords, and Gentlemen, 
We have it in command from his Majesty 
to state to you, that, having deemed it ex- 
pedient to recur to the sense of his people, 
his Majesty, in conformity to his declared 
intention, has lost no time in causing the pre- 
sent parliament to be aifembled. 
His Majesty has great satis‘action in ac- 
quainting you that, since tne events which 
led to the dissolution of the last parliament, 
his Majesty has received, in numerous ed- 
dresses from his subjects. the warmest assu- 
rances of their affectionate attachment to his 
person and government, and of their firm re- 
solution to support him, in maimtaining the 
just rights of his «rown and the true princie 
ples o the constitution ; and he commands us 
to express his entire confidence, that he shail 
experience in all your deliberations a determi- 
nation to afford him an equa'ly loyal, zealous, 
and affectionate support under all the arduous 
circumstances of the present time. 
We are commanded by his Majesty to in- 
ferm you, that his Majesty’s endeavours 
have been most anxiously employed tor the 
purpose of drawing closer the ties by which. 
his Majesty is connected with the powers of 
the continent ; of assisting the efforts of those 
powers against the ambition and oppressicns of 
France ; of forming such engagements as may 
ensure their continued co-operation; and of 
establishing that mutual confidence and con- 
cert, soessentiai, under any course of events, 
to the restoration of a solid and permanent 
peace in Europe. 
It would have afforded his Majesty the 
greatest pleasure to have been enabled to in- 
form you, that the meditation undertaken by 
his Majesty for the purpose of preserving 
peace between his Majesty’s ally the Empe- 
ror of Russia and the Sublime Porte nad 
proved effectual ior that iniportant object ; 
his Majesty deeply regrets the failure of that 
mediation, accumpanied as it was by the dis 
appointment o: the efforts of his Majesty’s 
squadron in the sea of Marmora, and foliow- 
ed as it has since been by the losses whica 
have been sustained by his gallant troops in 
Egypt. 
His Majesty could not but lament the ex- 
tension of hostilities in any quarter, which 
snould create a diversion im the war so fa- 
_yourabie to the views of France; but la- 
menting it especially in the instance of a 
power with which his Majesty has been so 
ciosely connected, and which has been so re- 
ceutly indebted for its protection against the 
encroachments of France, to the signal and 
successiul interposition of his Majesty’s 
arms. ‘ 
His Majesty has directed us to acquaint 
you, that he has thought it right to adopt 
such measures as migot best enable him, in 
concert with the Emperor of Russia, to take 
advantage of any tavourable opportunity for 
bringing the hostilities in which they are en- 
gaged against the Sublime Porte to a conclu~ 
sion, consistent with his Majesty’s honour, 
and the interests of his ally. 
Gentlemen of the House of Commons, 
His »ajesty has ordered the estimates for 
the current year to be laid before you, and 
he relies on the tried loyalty and zeal of his 
faithful Commons to make such provision for | 
the public service, as well as for the further 
application of the sums which were granted in 
the last Parliament, as may appear to be ne- 
cessary.. And his Majesty bearing constantly 
in mind the necessity of a careful and econo 
mical Administretion of the pecuniary re- 
sources of the country, has directed us to 
express his hopes that you will proceed, with 
out delay, in the pursuit of those enquiries 
connected with the public economy, which 
engaged the attention of the last Parliament. 
My Lords and Gentlemen, 
His Majesty commands us to state to you 
that he is deeply impressed with the peculiar 
importance at the present moment of cherish- 
ing a Sarit of union and harmony amongst 
his people; such a spirit will most effectually 
promote the prosperity of the Country at 
home, will give vigour and efficacy to its 
councils and its arms abroad, and can alone 
enable his Majesty under the blessing of Pro- 
vidence to carry on successiully the great 
contest in which he is engaged, or finally to 
conduct it to that termination which his Ma- 
jest’s moderation and justice have ever led 
him to seek-~a peace in which the hgnour: 
and interests of his kingdom can be secure, 
and in which Europe and the world may hope 
for independence and repuse. 
Dispatches, of which the following is a 
copy, have been received by Viscount . 
Castlereagh, one of his Majesty’s principal 
secretaries of state, from Mayor General 
Alexander M’Kenzie Fraser, command- 
ing his Majesty’s troops in Egypt. 
Camp, Eaftern Heights, Alexandria, 
Sir, '* April25, 1807. 
1 have the honour of reporting to you, 
that I yesterday 1eturned to this position 
with the remains of the army lately under 
my command. The events which have at- 
tended the service on which that army has 
been engaged, have been of a peculiar nature, 
and the result-has been as peculiarly unfor. 
tunate. 1 feel it therefore to be incumbent 
upon 
